Recent content by made in china

dude something ain't right with these cars. I know what you are saying, I own a newer full size truck and on those forums there's a lot of unhappy owners who expect their trucks to be as reliable as a their old Civic. I kinda roll my eyes at them but at the same time I cross my fingers that...

Aftermarket cats are OK. The cheapest eBay ones are not, but most mid-priced direct fit cats should last you a few years. I feel bad for you. But I know how it is, i'm surprised our CEL light hasn't burned out it comes on so often. Always something with this car. My suggestion to you for a...

Just wanted to follow, all of this P0300 trouble is officially in the past. But the CEL came on for P0421, which means the upstream cat failed. Makes sense as it is a victim of raw, unburned fuel being dumped into it while I was trying to drive on a random misfire. Common on Mazda's to have cat...

Please read my last post: http://www.mazdas247.com/forum/showthread.php?123619038-2001-Protege-2.0-random-misfire-symptoms&p=5607479#post5607479 Now we have the P0421 code also. It is a pending code that only occasionally lights the CEL. P0300 will be followed by P0421. The fact is that...

Rust is a cancer. The prognosis is very poor. It's not because the paint may be bad, it's a low grade of steel used and poor treatment during manufacture. No body shop can effectively fix this, it will always come back. Go back to that car and check the bottoms of the doors, it's probably...

Hi ya'll, new P5 owner here. We bought a 2002 P5 with SportAT to replace my wife's 2008 Impreza. The P5 sure is a nice looking car, eh? Well, I made my first post about P0171 and P0300 codes. That's where the fun of owning this car has begun for me. Then, in installing the navigation, alarm...

Well, we just bought a 2002 P5. I FORGOT to bring my code scanner when we were looking at the car, otherwise I would have known it had a pending P0171. On top of that, second day after buying the car, it started idling horribly, would accelerate erratically and threw a P0300 code on top of the...